2 days, 2 Cardiff schools, 2 dozen iPads stolen

ENCINITAS  For the second time in two days, a Cardiff elementary school was broken into and computers were stolen.

Deputies were called to Ada W. Harris Elementary School on Windsor Road about 2:10 a.m. Monday after an alarm was activated, sheriff’s Sgt. Roberto Lopez said.

As they searched the campus, they found a classroom with a broken window. Inside the room, deputies discovered that someone had broken the lock on a storage cabinet and stole about 12 iPads, Lopez said. On Sunday, authorities discovered that nearby Cardiff Elementary School on Montgomery Avenue had been burglarized in the same way.

Someone broke windows on two classrooms and then entered one, breaking into a file cabinet and taking 12 iPads.

The loss for both schools was estimated at $12,360, sheriff’s officials said.